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Phil Tippett

Phil Tippett is known for visual effects, with popular credits including Star Wars, Piranha, From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, Slice!. The latest news panel tracks recent coverage and source links for fans who want current updates.

Born 27 Sep 1951 Berkeley, California Profile updated 23 hours ago

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Phil Tippett is an American filmmaker and multi-award-winning visual effects supervisor and producer, specializing in creature design, stop-motion, and computerized character animation. Over his career, he has assisted ILM, DreamWorks, and his own company Tippet Studios, with his work appearing in movies such as the original Star Wars trilogy, Jurassic Park, and RoboCop.

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The Guardian

Skeleton warriors and plasticine chickens: why stop-motion animation is still going strong a century on

Dinosaurs, children’s adventures, horror fantasies … stop-motion cinema has done them all. Now it’s being celebrated as a pivotal part of movie history

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Streaming: Bodies Bodies Bodies, Sharp Stick and other great Gen Z films

Halina Reijn’s barbed satire of 21st-century youth culture and a bold tale of sexual discovery from Lena Dunham join Gen Z gems Booksmart, Eighth Grade and more

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Poker Face, Folau and The Wonder: what’s new to streaming in Australia this November

Plus Tim Burton’s Addams Family spinoff, a children’s series set in the Top End and another steamy take on Dangerous Liaisons

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Mad God review – a gruesomely squelchy fever dream from Star Wars effects maestro

A 30-year side hustle for legendary talent Phil Tippett, this stop-motion horror, set in a hellish landscape, is suitably grisly and grating

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‘I wouldn’t take my kids to this’: Star Wars’ Phil Tippett on his hellish animation Mad God

The leading visual effects designer, whose credits include Star Wars and Jurassic Park, has spent three decades directing his gruesome animated fable

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Streaming: the best of the Edinburgh film festival 2021

The live festival returns, augmented by an online programme that includes gems from Norway and Iran, plus a 30-year stop-motion passion project

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How we made Starship Troopers

‘I borrowed from the films of Leni Riefenstahl to show that these soldiers were like something out of Nazi propaganda. I even put one in an SS uniform. But no one noticed’

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Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex review – the men behind the monsters

An absorbing study of the evolution of a film-making niche that will hold most weight with the movie buffs

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2025 Why Dinosaurs? as Self movie 2024 A Celebration of Tenacity as Self movie 2024 Lost to Time: Unearthing the Primevals as Self movie 2023 RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop as Self tv 2022 Jurassic Punk as Self movie 2022 Slice! as Phil movie 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC as Self tv 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC as Self - Creatures and Stop Motion tv 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC as Self - Model Shop tv 2022 LIGHT & MAGIC as Self - Creatures and Stop Motion (archive footage) tv 2022 Icons Unearthed: Star Wars as Self - Miniature & Optical Effects Unit tv 2022 In Search of Tomorrow as Self - Interviewee movie 2020 Star Wars : La Révolution Visuelle movie 2020 Making Magic: The Artistry of Karel Zeman movie 2019 The Movies That Made Us as Self tv 2019 Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams and Monsters as Self movie 2019 The Creative Brain as Self movie 2019 The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs as Self tv 2017 The Secrets of Sinbad: Phil Tippett on Ray Harryhausen as Himself movie 2017 Corporate Wars: The Making of 'RoboCop 2' as Self movie 2016 Secrets of the Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey as Self movie 2015 My Life In Monsters as Himself movie 2015 Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex as Self movie 2014 The Real History of Science Fiction as Self tv 2013 Worse Than the Demon as himself movie 2012 Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan as Self movie 2011 Return to Jurassic Park as Self movie 2008 RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World” as Self movie 2007 Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 as Self movie 2007 Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 as Self movie 2006 Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet as Self movie 2006 American Scary as Himself movie 2006 The Sci-Fi Boys as Self movie 2005 Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection as Self movie 2004 Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy as Self movie 2002 Starship Troopers: Know Your Foe as Self movie 2001 Flesh + Steel: The Making of 'RoboCop' as Himself movie 1999 Virus: Ghost in the Machine as Self movie 1997 The Making of 'DragonHeart' as Self movie 1995 The Making of 'Jurassic Park' as Self movie 1988 Willow: The Making of an Adventure as Self - Visual Effects movie 1983 From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga as Self movie 1983 Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi as Self movie 1983 Return of the Jedi as Rancor movie 1980 The Making of The Empire Strikes Back as Self movie 1980 SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back as Self movie 1978 Piranha as Scuba Diver (uncredited) movie 1977 Star Wars as Cantina Alien (uncredited) movie TBA Inside the Federation as Self movie TBA Yub-Nub! The Forgotten Ewok Adventures movie TBA Howard the Doc or: How I Learned to Start Quacking and Love the Bomb as Self movie TBA Fleshing Out the Hollow Man as Self movie

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Who is Phil Tippett?

Phil Tippett is known for visual effects, with popular credits including Star Wars, Piranha, From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, Slice!. The latest news panel tracks recent coverage and source links for fans who want current updates.

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Phil Tippett is 74 years old, based on the birthday listed by TMDB.

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Phil Tippett is known for credits including Star Wars, Piranha, From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga, Slice!, Jurassic Punk.

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